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Twitterers of the World Revolution: The Digital New-New Left by Dr. K. R. Bolton – Foreign Policy Journal
Wrong Kind of Green Jan 14, 2012 Imperialist Wars/Occupations, Occupy Wall Street
"Young people have no conception of the conspiracy's strategy of pressure from above and pressure from below…. They have no idea that they are playing into the hands of the Establishment they claim to hate. The radicals think they're fighting the forces of the super rich, like Rockefeller and Ford, and they don't realise that it is precisely such forces which are behind their own revolution, financing it, and using it for their own purposes…"
Twitterers of the World Revolution: The Digital New-New Left
Dr. K. R. Bolton. Foreign Policy Journal.
Ephemeris 360°.org
An enlightening article by Tony Cartalucci, entitled "Google's Revolution Factory". Here Cartalucci focuses on the Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM), a.k.a. Movement.org.
Cartalucci states that Movement.org was started in 2008 to co-ordinate "radical" youth movements of what he calls a "left-liberal" nature. Among the founding groups was the April 6 Youth Movement, which has been the vanguard of the revolt in Egypt. What the naïve, the ill-informed, and those who have the disadvantage of a University miseducation will find perplexing is that these young revolutionaries have been sponsored by corporations such as Pepsi, by sundry globalist think tanks and NGOs, and by the U.S. State Department. Cartalucci comments on this:
It is hard, considering these men's affiliations, to believe that the change they want to see is anything less than a generation that drinks more Pepsi, buys more consumerist junk, and believes the United States government every time they purvey their lies to us via their corporate owned media.
While the activists attending the Movements.org summit adhere to the philosophies of "left-leaning" liberalism, the very men behind the summit, funding it, and prodding the agenda of these activists are America's mega-corporate combine. These are the very big-businesses that have violated human rights worldwide, destroyed the environment, sell shoddy, overseas manufactured goods produced by workers living in slave conditions, and pursue an agenda of greed and perpetual expansion at any cost. The hypocrisy is astounding unless of course you understand that their nefarious, self-serving agenda could only be accomplished under the guise of genuine concern for humanity, buried under mountains of feel-good rhetoric, and helped along by an army of exploited, naive youth.
Been There, Done That: The Old New Left
A pseudo-revolutionary youth movement controlled by Establishment wire-pullers is not a new phenomenon. The CIA, Tax Exempt Foundations, and Corporate America experimented with AYM's precursors during the 1960s as a means of dialectical "controlled opposition." One of these dialectical aims was to push a paradigm shift of the USA in a moderately (?) Leftist direction by sponsoring the extreme New Left nihilists. A concomitant part of this was to also sponsor the "Women's Lib" of Gloria Steinem, et al, which has assisted the corporate elite in detaching women from the family and incorporating them into the workforce as part of the capitalist production process behind the facade of "equality."
The ideological foundations for the 1960s "youth rebellion" were laid by dissidents of the Old Left mostly from the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, whose academia fell out with Stalin, escaped from Hitler and ended up in the USA at Columbia University and at the New School for Social Research. This coterie from Europe came in under the direct sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation's Emergency Program for European Scholars, which had last say in who was to be selected.
Under the direction of Theodor Ardorno, this coterie produced the seminal study The Authoritarian Personality, the purpose being to show by the use of personality questionnaires that those who believed in traditional values and especially the family and parental authority were mentally ill, whereas those with a Leftist outlook (presumably like Jim Jones, for example) were mentally healthy. Hence, the ideological basis was laid for a revolt against familial bonds, including traditional gender roles.
From out of this ideological fermentation the individual most responsible for laying the intellectual foundations of the New Left was Herbert Marcuse, who got his start in the USA as one of the refugees sponsored by the Rockefeller program. During World War II, he worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, and then for the US State Department until 1950. During the 1960s Marcuse became the "guru of the New Left", he was "often discussed" by the mass media, and his students began to gain influential academic positions and to promote his ideas, making him a major force in US intellectual life. Marcuse's Eros & Civilization became the manifesto of the 1960s counter-culture. He received Rockefeller funding for his book One Dimensional Man.
Timothy Leary, like Gloria Steinem, was "handled" by CIA operative Cord Meyer. Leary later credited Meyer with, "helping me understand my political cultural role more clearly." In 1953, the CIA established a front, The Society for Human Ecology, and spent $25 million on a research programme at Harvard, Stanford and Berkley universities, to experiment with mind-altering drugs, particularly mescaline and LSD. In 1960 Frank Barrow of the CIA established at Harvard the Psychedelic Drug Research Center. At the time, Leary was a lecturer in psychology at Harvard. It is here, under Barrow's direction, that Leary began his experiments with LSD. Leary later stated, "Some powerful people in Washington have sponsored all this drug research."
By 1967 Leary had become the icon of the counter-culture, his slogan being: "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out". The involvement of the Establishment in promoting the drug counter-culture was frankly stated by Leary in an interview with High Times, a leading counter-cultural magazine of which he was an editor, in 1978:
If you look back, many things that we thought were coincidences turned out not to have been accidents. The entire LSD movement itself was sponsored originally by the CIA to whom I give great credit. I would not be here today if it were not for the foresight and prestige of the CIA psychologists. So give the CIA credit for being a truly intelligence agency.
In 1937 the "Radio Project" was established at Princeton University with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation. The head of the Project was Paul Lazarsfeld, an Austrian socialist who had been brought to the USA as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and became one of the most influential social scientists in America as the founder of "public opinion research." At Princeton Lazarsfeld established the Office of Radio Research. Lazarsfeld's students were to become the heads of the CBS, NBC and ABC corporations. A biography of Lazarsfeld states:
In 1939 the Rockefeller Foundation radio research grant was transferred from Princeton to Columbia University, where Lazarsfeld became a professor of sociology. In 1944 the Office of Radio Research was renamed the Bureau of Applied Social Research , which became in the 1950s and 1960s the leading university-based social research institute in the United States.
Theodor Adorno was one of the major research scientists employed by the Radio Project as director of the project's Music Division. His research was nicknamed "The Little Annie Project". This examined the emotional reactions of listeners to characters and scenes, so that a scriptwriter could influence the response in an audience. Adorno described addiction to music as similar to other forms of addiction and as a means for the socialization of individuals into a mass.
This is the background of what New Left luminary Jerry Rubin described as the formula of the "youth revolt": sex, drugs and music, Rubin stating of this in his revolutionary manifesto Do It! (obliging published by Simon and Schuster): "We've combined youth, music, sex, drugs, and rebellion with treason, and that's a combination hard to beat."
Organization and Funding
The same type of corporate and Government-connected sponsorship that has been creating the present reanimated "New Left" to act as the vanguard of the world "velvet revolution" pulled the same stunt on youngsters during the 1960s. The specific institution from which the New Left emerged was the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) initially funded by James Warburg, a scion of the Warburg international banking dynasty, and "by the Warburg family" (sic).
According to Sidney Blumenthal, who conducted interviews with IPS for The Washington Post in 1986, "IPS became a bridge between liberalism and the New Left during the 1960s and 1970s." IPS co-founder Marcus Raskin for example was associated with the Radical Education Project of the primary New Left movement, Students for a Democratic Society. The IPS continues to receive funding from the major Foundations, including Ford and Rockefeller.
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was born from the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID). This was the youth wing of the Rockefeller-funded, League for Industrial Democracy, (LID) the U.S. branch of Fabian-socialism. According to Political Research Associates, a prominent Left-wing think tank, SLID was the U.S. affiliate of an international socialist youth movement which received CIA money: LID's Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) was an associate member of the CIA-financed International Union of Socialist Youth. SLID received money to maintain its international contacts from the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs, a major CIA conduit for funds. Another recipient of CIA funding since 1950 was the US National Student Association. Philip Agee states that the NSA provided an important basis for the New Left, and was closely associated with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the SDS:
…[M]embers of Students for a Democratic Society provided important leadership for campus-based activities. According to Angus Johnston, who had been secretary of the US Students Association, "…NSA played a vital role in the wave of student activism that rose in the early 1960s, doing much to advance a student-centered vision for the American university. Many of the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) became involved in national activism through NSA…"
One of those involved with founding the SDS, James Kunen, writes in his memoir The Strawberry Statement that Big Business sought to channel funds to the SDS as part of a dialectical process:
In the evening I went up to the University to check out a strategy meeting. A kid was giving a report on the SDS convention. He said that at the convention men from Business International Roundtables, the meetings sponsored by Business International for their client groups and heads of government —tried to buy up a few radicals. These men are the world's leading industrialists and they convene to decide how our lives are going to go. These are the boys who wrote the Alliance for Progress. They're the left wing of the ruling class.
They agree with us on black control and student control…
They want McCarthy in. They see fascism as the threat, see it coming from Wallace . The only way McCarthy could win is if the crazies and young radicals act up and make Gene look more reasonable. They offered to finance our demonstrations in Chicago.
We were also offered Esso (Rockefeller) money. They want us to make a lot of radical commotion so they can look more in the centre as they move to the left.
This Big Business dialectic with the New Left is confirmed independently by Gerald Kirk, who as a student at the University of Chicago, and became active in the SDS, the DuBois Club , the Black Panthers, and the Communist Party, as an informant for the FBI. Kirk broke from the Left in 1969. The following year, he testified before the House and Senate Internal Security panels:
The manner by which the dialectical process works was specifically demonstrated in 1968 when the SDS Columbia chapter instigated a student revolt and take-over of the University. Revolutionary leadership was taken out of the hands of the SDS and was taken over by the Students for a Restructured University (SRU) that had been funded with a $40,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. The Ford Foundation 1968 annual report states that:
At the University of California (Berkeley), a grant of $500,000 was given for a new university Office of Educational Development that enlists both students and faculty in the planning and conduct of educational experiments. These include new interdisciplinary courses that reflect contemporary social, political, and economic issues, and a system of residential colleges linked to specific student interests rather than to academic fields.
The Ford Foundation was funding in Berkeley, noted as the centre of New Left radicalism, the institutional promotion of New Left ideology. Note the reference to "educational experiments," "courses that reflect contemporary social, political and economic issues," and the promotion of a system of so-called "specific student interests." The 1968 Foundation report states further:
To facilitate thoughtful student involvement in academic affairs, the Foundation granted $315,000 to the National Student Association for a three-year program. The grant will assist two principal activities: a national dissemination program to inform students of various patterns of educational innovation and change and participation of N.S.A. staff as advisors in student reform efforts.
At Columbia University, which was severely disrupted by student demonstrations in the spring, grants were made to three groups studying and redefining the roles of faculty, students, administrators, and trustees. They included a faculty committee and a student organization that was active in the demonstrations but is dedicated to restructuring, not overturning, the university.
The Foundation report cryptically mentions "a student organization" active in the New Left demonstrations with the SDS, Black Panthers and others, referring here to the Students for a Restructured University, without naming the SRU as the recipient. Students for a Restructured University presented themselves as the "moderate" wing of the student uprising, the strategy being to threaten that if their "moderate" demands were not met, the University administration would have to deal with the SDS and other extremists. This was the dialectical strategy in operation.
The current use of the young generation for capitalist revolution behind the banner inscribed with left-liberal slogans is therefore a well-tried formula. A difference is that where it was once the CIA which co-opted "radicals" such as Gloria Steinem and Timothy Leary under a program directed by Cord Meyer, a co-director of the United World Federalists along with banking scion James Warburg, the CIA programs have been replaced with those of the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, Soros, and an array of often interlocking fronts, think tanks and NGOs.
Cartalucci has exposed the background of a contemporary major youth movement that is analogous to the New Left of yesteryear, as well as cogently explaining the real purposes of this movement. The by-line of AYM/Movements.org is: "Identify. Connect. Support." Movements.org states:
We match members of our global network with necessary resources from the technology, media, private and public sectors as well as with each other in order to foster peer to peer capacity building. Movements.org hosts annual summits, regional training events, and on online hub for best practices, lessons learned, discussion and news about the use of new technologies in social movements.
The focus is on the use of digital technology, a feature of the "velvet revolutions" from Eastern Europe, to Central Asia to the current turmoil in North Africa and Iran. Movements.org calls their constituency "digital activists."
Whereas the CIA covertly channelled funds to the New Left during the 1960s, now the new generation of young revolutionaries proudly display the logos of their corporate sponsors. Under the category of "Sponsors" Movements.org states:
Movements.org has leveraged its relationships with exciting movements in civil society to bring together some of the globe's top technology and communications companies to share their knowledge and expertise with online activists from across the world. Movements.org has received sponsorship and continues to be supported by global industry leaders…
These corporate sponsors displayed on the AYM website are: Howcast, Edelman, Google, Music TV, Meetup, Pepsi, CBS News, Mobile Accord, Youtube, Facebook, MSN/NBC, National Geographic, Omnicom Group, Access 360 Media, and Gen Next.
The Public Partnerships are: Columbia Law School, and the US State Department.
Most of the logos on the AYM website link directly to the companies so that Movements.org also serves as an advertising medium for corporate America. What is of interest is that the digital technology companies approve and support the manner by which their services are being used in the world velvet revolution. They are not only not indifferent; they are the sponsors of the revolutionaries. This is because the "brave new world" being created by their young "digital activists" will be one in which young consumers will emerge from the traditional societies that are now being overthrown. There will be a larger consumer market; more youngsters addicted to consumerism, as they are in the West.
Howcast, the primary backer of AYM, has for example made a business empire out of "how to" videos based around the banality of the mass consumer, the subjects of wisdom being imparted including: "How to go on a date with someone you met on the internet," "How to prevent a blister," "How to headbang," "How to enter and elegantly exit a car…" …Not exactly in the same category as The Communist Manifesto or The Little Red Book, but fitting articulations of the type of revolution that neocon strategist Maj. Ralph Peters predicted would overtake the old order and reshape the world in America's image by means of consumer addiction via what he called "creative destruction."
Howcast CEO Jason Liebman conceived the idea of the Alliance of Youth Movements/Movements.org. His profile on the Howcast website states of Liebman: "Jason is also a cofounder of the Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM), a nonprofit organization that helps young people to effect nonviolent change around the world using 21st-century tools." Howcast is described as working directly "with brands, agencies, and organizations" such as GE, Proctor & Gamble, Kodak, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, and Ford Motor Company… Howcast is therefore intimately involved not only with global corporations but also with the U.S. Government. Liebman was previously with Google where he forged corporate relationships with Time Warner, News Corp, Viacom, Warner Music, Sony Pictures, Reuters, The New York Times, and the Washington Post Company.
The other Movement.org Board Members and Co-Founders are:
Jared Cohen is director of Google Ideas. "He is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he focuses on terrorism and counter-radicalization, the impact of connection technologies, and '21st century statecraft.'" The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is the omni-present foreign policy think tank that was founded in the aftermath of World War I by corporate interests in conjunction with academics and politicians, and is the prototype of subsequent think tanks. Cohen is a director and founder of a youth movement that claims to be creating revolutionary change throughout the world, yet simultaneously he advises CFR on "counter-radicalization." With this it might be discerned the actual purpose of Movement.org: that of co-opting and channeling youth dissent into acceptable forms. The profile for Cohen continues:
Previously, he served for four years as a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff under both Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. In this capacity, he advised on the Middle East, South Asia, counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization, and the development of the "21st century statecraft" agenda. He is twice a recipient of the Secretary of State's Meritorious Honor Award.
Cohen is author of the books Children of Jihad: A Young American's Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East and One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide. He has also written several articles, including "Diverting the Radicalization Track" (Policy Review) and "Iran's Young Opposition" (SAIS Review).
Cohen has travelled extensively throughout Africa, where he examined issues related to democracy, governance, and genocide. He has also conducted research in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, looking at opposition groups, the spread of technology, and interviewing militants ranging from Hezbollah to several Al-Qaeda affiliated groups.
The other corporate revolutionary Board Member and Co-Founder of Movements.org is Roman Tsunder, founder of Access 360 Media, "the nation's largest digital Out-of-Home media network focused on shoppers that connects to over 100MM consumers each month in over 10,000 locations through the communication platforms that matter most to them – In-store, Online and Mobile."
In 2009, Roman created the PTTOW! Summit (www.youtube.com/pttow), an invite only event bringing together 35 top execs from the world's most innovative companies to discuss the future of the youth industry, representing every major industry category, including: wireless (AT&T), clothing (Quiksilver); gaming (Activision), social media (Facebook), technology (HP), online video (YouTube), beverage (Pepsi), athletes (Kelly Slater) and the US Government.
Tsunder's agenda is clear enough, as with others, being to create and expand the "youth industry" (sic) and that indicates how youth are perceived by the corporate revolutionaries: as consumers and potential consumers. He is also "a founder and board member of Gen Next (gen-next.org), a non-profit organization focused on 'affecting change for the next generation.'" Revolution has become another means of profit maximization. Gen Next is one of the corporate sponsors of Movements.org.
The Movement's "Development and Corporate Partnerships Manager," itself an interesting title for a supposedly idealistic youth organization, is Rachel Silver, who worked for Liebman's Howcast, and as such organized the Movement's summits in New York City, Mexico City and London.
AYM Summits
The Movement has held three summits so far. The 2010 Summit held in London, had as its keynote speaker Scott Heifferman from Meetup.com. Other luminaries at the summit were Kristen Morissey from Google; Juan Zarate, CBS News; Farah Pandith: Special Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State on Muslim Affairs.
"Guests, hosts and sponsors" included representatives from Google, Rand Corp., Edelman, Howcast, Access 360 Media, World Bank, US Institute of Peace, Global Engagement Group, and Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Moderators and Speakers were from the National Democratic Institute, Gen Next, Twitter, CBS, Meet Up, Google, World Bank, and You Tube. Farah Pandith and Jared Cohen represented the US State Department.
Movement.org's Role in the North Africa Tumult
Lest it be thought that Movement.org is not much more than a bunch of nerdish armchair revolutionaries and a past-time for CEO yuppies, the organization has been playing an important role in the North Africa upheavals. Ariel Schwartz writing for the Fast Company, writes:
File this under: Timing is still everything. Just in time to help organize Egyptian grassroots activists with restored Internet access, the Alliance for Youth Movements (AYM) has rebranded itself as Movements.org, an online hub for digital activists….
The AYM has a history of creating change–in 2008, a summit organized by the AYM included leaders of Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement, a protest movement seeking political reform and a democratic government.
"Movements.org is the source for anyone who wants to keep up to date on the use of technology for achieving real social change," said Movements.org and Howcast cofounder Jason Liebman in a statement. "We have existed for three years as a support network for grassroots activists using digital tools, and today we come out of alpha launch to make our platform and resources available to everyone."
In other words, the revolution is now centralized…
It should be recalled that the April 6 Youth Movement has been a major factor in organizing the Egyptian revolt. The link for the April 6 Youth Movement provided by Fast Company goes to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, one of the veteran globalist institutions, which describes the pivotal role "social media" played in the creation of the April 6 Youth Movement.
In the spring of 2008, over 100,000 users of the social networking website Facebook joined an online group to express solidarity with workers protesting in the Delta industrial city of al-Mahalla al-Kubra. As the protests escalated into a nationwide strike, the Facebook group gained momentum and eventually coalesced into a political movement known as the April 6 Youth Movement.
In 2009, the group still claimed a membership of around 70,000 young Egyptians, most of whom are well-educated and politically unaffiliated. Like Egypt's other protest movements, the April 6 Youth Movement is not a formal political party, but it nonetheless provides an outlet for a new generation of politically conscious Egyptians.
Google's Ghonim
One of the first leaders of the riots in Egypt to be detained was Google's Egyptian executive Wael Ghonim, arrested on January 8, and freed ten days later. "Wael was also active on Facebook and Twitter regarding the Revolution…" Newsweek credits Ghonim with a major role in the Egyptian revolt, with the subheading: "Wael Ghonim's day job was at Google. But at night he was organizing a revolution." Although based in Dubai as Google's head of marketing for North Africa, Ghonim "volunteered to run the Facebook fan page of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner who had emerged as a key opposition leader." According to Newsweek, it was Ghonim's broadcast that actually instigated the revolt that toppled Mubarak:
On Jan. 14, protests in Tunisia felled that country's longstanding dictator, and Ghonim was inspired to announce, on Facebook, a revolution of Egypt's own. Each of the page's 350,000-plus fans was cordially invited to a protest on Jan. 25. They could click "yes," "no," or "maybe" to signal whether they'd like to attend.
Interestingly, it is claimed that Ghonim undiplomatically rejected offers by an "American NGO" to fund him. The claim seems disingenuous, given that Google is a U.S. corporation with close contact with the U.S. State Department, sundry NGOs and think tanks and a pivotal part of AYM. The question arises as to whether this is posturing by Ghonim given his comment that he would like to resume his job with Google if he's not "fired" for his role in "sparking the Egyptian revolution." The quip is pure cant, as it seems unlikely that Ghonim is ignorant of the role Google and Facebook have played with AYM and the "velvet revolutions." The following nonsense is supposed to have taken place between Ghonim and Google head office:
On the record, Google's not talking about Ghonim or the question of employee activism. For his part, Ghonim told CBS's Katie Couric in an interview on Friday that his participation in the protests had no connection with his employer.
"They did not know anything about this and actually when I took the time off and I went to Cairo, they did not know I was going to the protest," he said. "But when everything became public, I talked with the company and they suggested that I take a leave of absence and I also suggested that to them and I think it was a good decision for that. Google has nothing to do with this."
Columnist Charles Cooper is also writing drivel when he questions whether Ghonim is "one off for Silicon Valley" (sic). Ghonim is "one of" tens of thousands of yuppies around the world being agitated, trained and directed towards revolutionary purposes by an array of think tanks, NGOs and US Government agencies. Cooper continues:
Maybe that was meant as a tongue-in-cheek comment. But there's a larger truth behind his quip. The key role played by one of Google's key executives in the Middle East revived a decades-old dilemma that many other technology companies face when it comes to the question of political activism: Where should they draw the line?
"It's one of those things that companies don't want to touch with a ten foot pole," a tech public relations exec told me on background.
The obvious truth du jour is that tech companies don't want to take political positions – even when regimes use their products to oppress their own people.
Cooper is writing unadulterated CRAP. It might be asked whether Cooper is a liar or a half-wit? If he has never heard of AYM, he must surely know about the role long played by the digi-twits in the velvet revolutions in Serbia and elsewhere? Movement.org identifies Ghonim on its timeline for the Egyptian revolt as being the Google executive who instigated the revolt and who was in contact with the April 6 Youth Movement:
…Spring 2010 A group of activists, including Google executive Wael Ghonim and April 6 leader Ahmed Maher, begin meeting once a week to discuss plans for a protest against the government.
… February 8 – Massive protests continue, with many people—inspired by Wael Ghonim —taking to the streets for the first time. Wael speaks to the crowds at Tahrir Square.
Feburary 11 – Wael tells CNN: If you want to liberate a government, give them the internet. http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/wael-ghonim-if-you-want-to-liberate-a-government-give-them-the-internet/
TechCrunch writes of Ghonim and the role that is played by the "digital activists":
Ghonim, who has been a figurehead for the movement against the Egyptian government, told [CNN's Wolf] Blitzer "If you want to liberate a government, give them the internet."
Ghonim, is of course, referring to the fact much of this revolution was organized on Twitter and Facebook (similar to the Tunisian protests). Ghonim was believed to have hosted the first Facebook page that organized the January 25th protests. When Blitzer asked "Tunisia, then Egypt, what's next?," Ghonim replied succinctly "Ask Facebook."
He went on to personally thank Mark Zuckerberg, and said he'd love to meet Facebook's CEO. Ghonim says that he's looking forward to getting back to his work at Google but he plans to write a book, "Revolution 2.0? about the role of social media and the internet in political demonstration. There's no doubt that social media has changed political activism irrevocably, and this moment will surely be a historic moment for Facebook and Twitter.
There is no meaningless rhetoric here about possibly being "fired" by Google, but confidence that Ghonim will return to his job – and I'm sure a promotion – for being what amounts to the epitome of the very "digital activist" who is sponsored by Google, Facebook, Howcast, and the erstwhile social-revolutionaries from AT&T, Pepsi, U.S. State Department, MTV, International Republican Institute, Freedom House, etc.
AYM Inaugural Summit
Movement.org's inaugural summit in 2008, which the April 6 Youth Movement attended, included a gala hosted by MTV in Times Square. Sponsors of the summit were AT&T, Howcast, Google, Facebook, MTV, and Gen-Next. Eight representatives of the US State Department were present. Some of the speakers were from Columbia Law School, Facebook, Fortune Magazine, Hoover Institution, MTV et al. Panelists included three members of the Obama presidential media campaign; Shaarik Zafar, senior adviser to the US Department for Homeland Security; and Sherif Mansour, Program Officer for Freedom House.
Among the organizations represented were Young Civilians (Turkey), an online activist network of 2,000,000 comprised of sundry "liberals, leftists, feminists, environmentalists, democrats." Myanmar has a global network working to bring it into the globalist economic fold, the Burma Global Action Network (BGAN) formed by the "'Support The Monks' Protest In Burma" group on Facebook, begun 2007. The group at its peak had 450,000 members, which worked together to organize demonstrations around the world.
No Mas Chavez is dedicated to overthrowing a major bugbear of the globalists and the USA, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, whose aim of a Bolivarian bloc in alliance with other nations such as Russia might pose significant opposition to globalism. No Mas Chavez developed from Facebook networking with 80,000 supporters, and has organized demonstrations against Chavez. Another organization at the summit, opposing Chavez was Sumate.
Cuba Development Initiative flagrantly claims to seek the democratization of Cuba as a means of "joining" its "democratic, economic, and social development [with] international financial resources… CDI works with a vast network of individuals and organizations." Another organization there that is aimed at subjugating Cuba to globalization is Raíces de Esperanza, Inc.: "Our strategy has been to (a) build and unite a student network of campus groups, (b) sponsor academic conferences for Cuban-American youth, (c) mobilize youth abroad in solidarity, and (d) reach out to our counterparts on the Island. We have a committed volunteer core that works on all levels." (Comment: Whatever happened to the old youth protest slogan: "Hands Off Cuba!"?). CDI was founded by Felice Gorordo, a businessman who has previously worked with the US Departments of State, Commerce and Homeland Security. Another CDI representative at the 2008 summit was Verónica Nur, who "currently works for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the Associate Director of Strategic Communications for Policy while also managing the Spanish-language media for the department at large." Nur "has also served as a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, the Cuban Democratic Directorate, the International Youth Committee for Democracy in Cuba, and Raíces de Esperanza.
Speakers at the 2008 summit included Prof. Matthew Waxman from Columbia Law School, who has "served in senior positions at the U.S. State Department, Department of Defense and National Security Council." Larry Diamond, co-editor of the Journal for Democracy, came from the Hoover Institution and is a director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. "He has also advised the U.S. Agency for International Development (whose 2002 report, Foreign Aid in the National Interest, he coauthored), the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations." Others speakers were from Fortune Magazine, CNN, Facebook, MTV, and PACT (which is said to be the first community youth organization built in the tradition of 1960s New Left revolutionist Saul Alinsky).
Guests included Marc Sageman, founder of Sageman Consulting, who works with think tanks including the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Homeland Security Policy Institute, and is a consultant for the National Security Council, Departments of Homeland Security and of Defense, and "various agencies in the U.S. Intelligence Community, and the U.S. Secret Service." Ambassador Stuart W Holiday from Meridian House, a "public diplomacy institution [that] works closely with the U.S. Department of State, other government agencies, NGOs, international governments, and the private sector to create global leadership programs." Holiday is also a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and "works closely with the U.S. Department of State, other government agencies, NGOs, international governments, and the private sector to create global leadership programs."
The second AYM was held in Mexico City in 2009 and was opened with a video-relayed talk from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. This summit was sponsored by Causecast.org, Facebook, Gen Next, Google, Hi5, Howcast Media, MTV, MySpace, PepsiCo, Univision Interactive Media, Inc., U.S. Department of State, WordPress.com and YouTube.
With the revolutionary zeal of a corporate Trotsky, Richard Lee, vice president of marketing at PepsiCo International, told the summit:
We support The Alliance of Youth Movements and especially the passion, purpose and creativity that young people possess. Today is a moment in time when one individual, with the use of technology can create positive change in the world…and Pepsi will strive to enable this change.
From the U.S. State Department AYM co-founder Jared Cohen stated:
The impact of using online tools and social media to advance positive social change is truly remarkable and exciting. It is critical to encourage and enable today's youth to apply these technologies as means to catalyze social movements around the world.
Among the "guests, hosts and sponsors" were Juan M. Henao, International Republican Institute; Mick Duffy, PepsiCo International; Sarah Cliffe, The World Bank, et al. There were eight from the US State Department.
Among the participating organizations were reps from the Burma Global Action Network, Corporación Foro de la Juventud Guayaquil, Ecuador; Iranian oppositionist newspaper Etemad Melli; Genç Siviller (Young Civilians, Turkey); JuventudDes (Peru); Tehran Bureau, a "virtual" journalism project; ThinkMoldova, a catalyst for the 2009 so-called "Twitter Revolution" which succeeded in ousting a pro-Russian governing party that wasn't pleasing to "civil society."
Raíces de Esperanza, the Cuban oppositionist youth movement, was represented again.
Opponents of Hugo Chavez were represented by Latytud Project who, "So far… have established alliances in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia." Another was Movimiento Joven de Venezuela, its representative at the AYM summit being Yon Goicoechea, who is also President of the Caracas Youth, Member of the National Board of Directors of the First Justice Party and Representative of the Movimiento Joven de Venezuela, an NGO dedicated to training and organizing young democratic leaders. Another anti-Chavez organization present was Un Mundo Sin Mordaza.
"Moderators, speakers and panelists" included Jack Dorsey, Chairman, Twitter; James Eberhard, Mobile Accord; Kristen Morrissey, Principle New Business Development, Google; Mario González, CNN Español; Matthew Brady, Program Director, Freedom House; Nicole Lapin, CNN; Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube; and Tara Lemmey, Founder and CEO, LENS, a corporation involved with technology and security issues, among others…
Among guest luminaries were Juan M. Henao from the International Republican Institute; and Mick Duffy and Richard Lee from PepsiCo International; and Sarah Cliffe, The World Bank, along with the AYM executives and others from Howcast, MobileBehavior, Google, GenNext, and Edelman.
From this it can be seen that particularly well represented were the U.S. State Department; Obama's media experts; opponents of Hugo Chavez; PepsiCola, Freedom House and the International Republican Institute, the latter two particularly involved with training and funding activists of the "velvet revolution" around the world.
While the "Beat Generation" was too whacked out on LSD to comprehend how they were being manipulated by the CIA and others, what is one to make of the "digital generation"? Are they too stupefied by the puerility of MTV, Twitter, Facebook, and Pepsi to find anything questionable about being involved with the US Departments of Homeland Security, State, and Defense; with AT&T, NED, World Bank, Rand Corp., etc., in the name of "revolution," "human rights" and "democracy"? It is a generation that has been sold on "ideals" that lead to nothing more than the global shopping mall. Their "ideals" offer the "democratic right" for Muslim, Latin American, Asian, and East European youth to become part of that same consumer society that is a manifestation of a civilization in its cycle of decay.
[1] Mr Cartalucci , Land Destroyer, http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/
[2] Tony Cartalucci, "Google's Revolution Factory – Alliance of Youth Movements: Color Revolution 2.0," Global Research, February 23, 2011, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23283
[3] Tony Cartalucci, "Google's Revolution Factory," ibid.
[4] "(3) Emergency Program for European Scholars, 1940-1945," Rockefeller Foundation Archives, http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:tXK4eQ5oXbAJ:www.rockarch.org/collections/rf/refugee.php
[5] T W Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper Row, 1950).
[6] K R Bolton, "'Sex Pol': The Influence of the Freudian-Marxian Synthesis on Politics and Society," Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, Washington, Vol. 35, No. 3, Fall 2010.
[7] Encyclopaedia of World Biography on Herbert Marcuse, http://www.bookrags.com/biography/herbert-marcuse/
[8] Douglas Kellner, "Marcuse, Herbert," The American National Bibliography, http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:5_KUmmTtH7QJ:www.uta.edu/english/dab/illuminations/kell12.html
[9] Herbert Marcuse, "Acknowledgements," One Dimensional Man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society, See for the acknowledgement: http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=63QdLKsuqCwC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq
[10] "Gloria Steinem and the CIA: C.I.A. Subsidized Festival Trips: Hundreds of Students Were Sent to World Gatherings," The New York Times, 21 February 1967, http://www.namebase.org/steinem.html
[11] Mark Riebling, Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy, Was Timothy Leary a CIA Agent? Was JFK the "Manchurian Candidate"? Was the Sixties Revolution Really a Government Plot?, Osprey, 1994, http://home.dti.net/lawserv/leary.html
[12] Timothy Leary interview, High Times, February 1978.
[13] "Biographical Memoir"' (Washington: National Academy Press, 1987), Volume 56, p. 255.
[14] "Biographical Memoir," Ibid., p. 258.
[15] "Biographical Memoir," op.cit., p. 260.
[16] Paul Lazarsfeld, 'Biography', http://www.answers.com/topic/paul-lazarsfeld
[17] Jerry Rubin, Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970), pp. 19, 249.
[18] Institute for Policy Studies, Beginning the Second Decade, 1963-1973.
[19] Institute for Policy Studies, Beginning the Second Decade, ibid.
[20] Sidney Blumenthal, "IPS – Left-Wing Thinkers," Washington Post, 30 July, 1986. http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:X-SHxRkyN9YJ:www.tni.org/archives/media_ips-wp1986
[21] Green Tracking Library, http://www.undueinfluence.com/index.html
[22] 'Timeline for the Young Social Democrats', Young Social Democrats, http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:A-JZk7 38J:www.youngpeoplessocialistleague.org/library/timeline.shtml
[23] The International Union of Socialist Youth is the youth affiliate of the Socialist International, comprising social democratic and Labor parties throughout the world. The IUSY was founded in Germany in 1919 under the leadership of the German Bolshevik Karl Liebknacht, and became the Communist Youth International. The IUSY was reconstituted in 1946. 'International Union of Socialist Youth, Statemaster Encyclopaedia, http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:OaAnTsZAgKwJ:www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/International-Union-of-Socialist-Youth.
[24] Political Research Associates, "League for Industrial Democracy," Right Web, 10 January 1989,
[25] Philip Agee Jr., "CIA Infiltration of Student Groups: The National Student Association Scandal," Campus Watch, Fall 1991, pp. 12-13, http://www.cia-on-campus.org/nsa/nsa2.html
[27] Angus Johnston, A Brief History of the NSA & USSA, US Student Association, http://www.usstudents.org/who-we-are/history
[28] Left-liberal Democratic presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.
[29] Conservative Southern Democratic presidential candidate George Wallace.
[30] James Kunen The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary, (New York: Avon, 1970), "At the convention, Men from Business International Roundtables," pp. 130–131.
[31] A Communist Party front named after Afro-American scholar W E B DuBois.
[32] "Investigation of SDS 1969," Committee on Internal Security, 91st Congress, 1st Session, Pt. 5, pp. 1654-1705 of hearings.
[33] "Columbia University – Students for a Democratic Society – Unrest," ABC Evening News, 19 September 1968, Vanderbilt Television News Archive, http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:hQs-Ccu5i1IJ:tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl
[34] An article in a leading British Leftist magazine puts the amount given by the Ford Foundation to SRU at $40,000. Mike Marqusee, "1968 The mysterious chemistry of social change," Red Pepper, 6 April 2008,
$40,000 is also the amount stated by Joel Geier, Associate Editor of the International Socialist Review, "1968: Year of Revolt," talk at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Il., March 26, 2008. Geier was a leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkley during the 1960s. International Socialist review, http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:Tw1lGIjtOAgJ:links.org.au/node/335+
[35] 'Higher Education: Academic Reform', Ford Foundation Annual Report 1968,
[36] Cord Meyer was co-founder, with James P Warburg, of the United World Federalists in 1947, to promote a World State. In 1948 Meyer was World Federalist president. ("Opinion in a drawing room", Time Magazine, 16 February 1948, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794188,00.html.
[37] K R Bolton, "The Globalist Web of Subversion," February 7, 2011 Foreign Policy Journal, http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/07/the-globalist-web-of-subversion/
[38] Movements.org "Mission," http://www.movements.org/pages/mission
[39] Movements.org "Mission," ibid.
[40] A recent article on the website of Radio Free Europe/Liberty states of this: "The work of groups like Canvas, combined with the proliferation of social-networking websites like Facebook and Twitter, and the coming of age of a wired — and increasingly disaffected — young generation have combined to create a perfect storm threatening authoritarian regimes from Europe to North Africa, to the Middle East." "Exporting Nonviolent Revolution, From Eastern Europe To The Middle East," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, February 21, 2011, http://www.rferl.org/content/exporting_nonviolent_revolution_eastern_europe_mideast/2316231.html
[41] Movements.org "Mission," op. cit.
[42] Movements.org "Sponsors," http://www.movements.org/pages/sponsors
[43] Edelman is a leading "global" public relations firm,[43] whose clients include fellow Movements.org sponsor Pepsi.
[44] Corporate member of the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR "Corporate Membership," http://www.cfr.org/about/corporate/roster.html
[45] Corporate members of the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR "Corporate Membership," http://www.cfr.org/about/corporate/roster.html
[47] Howcast, http://www.howcast.com/
[48] R Peters. "Constant Conflict," Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, Summer 1997, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3011.htm
[49] Howcast, "Meet Our Team," http://info.howcast.com/about/team
[50] Movements.org. "Team Board," http://www.movements.org/pages/team#Jared
[51]Movements.org. "Team Board," ibid.
[52] Movements.org. "Team Board," ibid.
[53] Council on Foreign Relations, http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html
[54] Movements.org. "Team Board," op. cit.
[58] US Institute for Peace, "established and funded by Congress." USIP was created by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1984. http://www.usip.org/about-us/our-history
The Chairman of the Board of Directors is businessman, government appointee and CFR member J. Robinson West. http://www.usip.org/about-us/board-directors
[59] Center for Strategic and International Studies: "CSIS provides strategic insights and policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society." CSIS was founded as a Cold War think tank in 1962 to assure America's world primacy. CSIS, "About Us," http://csis.org/about-us
Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR), the veteran Rockefeller protégé, "co-chairs the CSIS Advisory Board." http://csis.org/expert/zbigniew-brzezinski
Another familiar face is CSIS counsellor and trustee is Henry Kissinger (CFR). http://csis.org/expert/henry-kissinger
[60] Movements.org/Alliance for Youth Movements, "Attendee Biographies, Summit Details," 2010, http://www.movements.org/pages/the-summit
[61] National Democratic Institute has sponsorship from The National Endowment for Democracy; U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Middle East Partnership Initiative; United States Agency for International Development (USAID); 18 Governments in addition to that of the USA; OAS, World Bank Group, United Nations organs; and the types of Foundations that one would expect, including Citigroup Foundation, Ford, Soros' OSI., etc. NDI, "Who supports Our Work," http://www.ndi.org/who_supports_our_work
The Chairman of NDI is former US Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, who also serves on the Board of Directors of the omni-present Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). "CFR Membership Roster," http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=A
[62] A Schwartz, "More Tech Tools for Egypt's Protesters: Movements.org, an Online Hub for Grassroots Activists," Fast Company, February 3, 2011, http://www.fastcompany.com/1723468/movementsorg-an-online-hub-for-grassroots-activists
[63] " The April 6 Youth Movement," Carnegie Endowment, http://egyptelections.carnegieendowment.org/2010/09/22/the-april-6-youth-movement
[64] "Google Executive Freed in Egypt," February 8, 2011, http://www.politicolnews.com/google-executive-freed-in-egypt/
[65] "The Facebook Freedom Fighter," Newsweek, February 13, 2011, http://www.newsweek.com/2011/02/13/the-facebook-freedom-fighter.html
[66] It should also be recalled that ElBaradei emerged from the bowels of the International Crisis Group, where he sits with George Soros, to be the man of the hour in Egypt. See: K R Bolton, "What's Behind the Tumult in Egypt?," Foreign Policy Journal, February 1, 2011, http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/02/01/whats-behind-the-tumult-in-egypt/all/1
[67] "The Facebook Freedom Fighter," Newsweek, op. cit.
[68] "The Facebook Freedom Fighter," Newsweek, ibid.
[69] Charles Cooper, "Wael Ghonim: A 'One-Off' for Silicon Valley?," CBS News, Tech Talk, February 11, 2011, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20031608-501465.html?tag=mantle_skin;content
[70] Charles Cooper, "Wael Ghonim: A 'One-Off' for Silicon Valley?," CBS News, ibid.
[71] Charles Cooper, ibid.
[72] "Timeline of the January 25 Revolution in Egypt," AYM, February 14, 2011, http://www.movements.org/blog/entry/timeline-of-the-january-25-revolution-in-egypt
[73] "Timeline of the January 25 Revolution in Egypt," AYM, ibid.
[74] Leen Rao, TechCrunch, February 11, 2011, http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/11/wael-ghonim-if-you-want-to-liberate-a-government-give-them-the-internet/
[75] Movement.org, "The Summit: New York City," 2008, http://www.movements.org/pages/the-summit#2008
[76] A corporate member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
[77] A corporate sponsor of the Council on Foreign Relations.
[78] "Alliance of Youth Movement Summits," New York City 2008, "Attendee Biographies," http://allyoumov.3cdn.net/f734ac45131b2bbcdb_w6m6idptn.pdf
[79] K R Bolton, "An ANZAC-Indo-Russian Alliance? : New Zealand & Australia's Geopolitical Alternatives," India Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 2 April-June 2010.
[80] For the role of the National Endowment for Democracy see: K R Bolton, "The Globalist Web of Subversion," Foreign Policy Journal, op. cit.
[81] Alinsky was the organizational guru of the 1960s New Left.
[82] Corporate member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
[83] "Alliance of Youth Movements Summit," 2009, Howcast, http://info.howcast.com/youthmovements/summit09
[84] "Alliance for Youth Movements Second Annual Summit," http://www.movements.org/pages/284/
[85] Cohen serves on the U.S. Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff.
[86] K R Bolton, "The Globalist Web of Subversion," op. cit.
K R Bolton is a Fellow of the Academy of Social and Political Research, and an assistant editor of the peer reviewed journal Ab Aeterno. Recent publications include 'Trotskyism and the Anti-Family Agenda,' CKR website, Sociology Dept., Moscow State University (October 2009); 'Rivalry over water resources as a potential cause of conflict in Asia,' Journal of Social Political and Economic Studies, and Russia and China: an approaching conflict?, Vol. 35, No. 1, Spring 2010; Vol. 34, no. 2, Summer 2009.
LIBYA IS IN THE MIDST OF AN ARMED INSURRECTION, NOT A 'PEACEFUL PROTEST'
WHO IS MUAMMAR GADDAFI?
LIBYA: WHAT WESTERN MEDIA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
GENOCIDE IN LIBYA? NATO INVASION UNDER WAY. ITS THE OIL, STUPID.
LIBYA AND IMPERIALISM: THE REAL PURPOSE BEHIND 'INTERVENTION'
FOR GADDAFI, AGAINST IMPERIALISM
EGYPT'S REVOLUTION: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION FOR A 'GREATER MIDDLE EAST'
WORLD CHEERS AS CIA PLUNGES LIBYA INTO CHAOS
DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: AMERICA'S NEW REGIME CHANGE FOCUS
GLOBALISTS PREPARE LIBYAN INTERVENTION UNDER HUMANITARIAN COVER
LIBYA: THE REST OF THE STORY
DEFIANT LIBYA
THE GLOBALIST WEB OF SUBVERSION
CIA COLLEGE OF COUPS
SOROS AND THE NEW EGYPTIAN CONSTITUTION
COLOR REVOLUTIONS: EGYPT TODAY. THAILAND TOMORROW.
"COLOR CODED"EGYPT: DID U.S. BACKED NGO'S HELP TO TOPPLE MUBARAK?
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The field work described on these pages is just one of three components that are roped together to form the US Antarctic Meteorite program. The non-field-work components include the initial curatorial and characterization work at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and longer-term curation and characterization at the Smithsonian Institution.
To learn more about these other components of the US Antarctic Meteorite program, please visit the links below.
The Antarctic Meteorites group within the Astromaterials Branch at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center hosts a very detailed curatorial site, where you can find data on individual meteorites, instructions on how to request samples, PDF versions of the Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter, Compendia of important classes of meteorites, and much, much more.


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Three ticked-off women wallow in Stephen Daldry and David Hare's The Hours, something of a misnomer since it clocks in at one hour 50.
The stories of Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman sporting a prosthetic nose), a 1950s housewife (Julianne Moore) and a present-day New Yorker (Meryl Streep) are tied together by a Philip Glass score and some particularly on-the-nose editing. Recurring motifs of cracking eggs and discarded food suggest a century of domestic misery, more The Dours than The Hours.
Opening with Woolf's suicide by drowning, the film feels weighed down as if by stones. The interweaving narrative may have been clever in Michael Cunningham's novel but appears clunky on screen, where the three women seem more like pieces in a literary game of 3D chess than 3D characters. Streep's theatrical performance also sticks out more than Kidman's prosthetics.
The rest of the cast are engaging (including Allison Janney, Ed Harris and John C. Reilly in his second "oblivious husband" role of 2002) and the movie may be the most stressful Christmas Day release of all time, but there's probably more here for book groups than drama nuts. And for those with a nose for the more avant-garde, Robert Altman's 3 Women would be our after-Hours pick.
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As we did a healing circle to send energy to the protesters and the situation at Standing Rock, Susan Pa'iniu Floyd, a Hawaiian Shaman and teacher of Kino Mana bodywork with Aloha International, shared her method of distant healing.
First, I've learned I need to practice releasing tension within myself first, with techniques I've learned from Serge Kahili King, usually Piko Piko breathing (visualize breathing in energy from the top of your head and releasing it through the bottom of your feet, like bringing in energy through the crown chakra and releasing all tension through the root chakra), and self-massage.
"Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want," teaches Serge Kahili King, PhD, a Hawaiian shaman as he explains the Huna principle – Energy flows where attention goes.
It sounds easy, but it's not always. Can you focus on the health you have and ignore the aches and pains? Then more health will flow your way. Can you focus on the happiness in the world rather than the misery? Then more happiness will flow your way. Can you focus on abundance in all forms, instead of lack? Then more abundance will flow your way.
This concept is known the world over, but easily forgotten too. In one of Paulo Coelho's recent blog posts, he mentions of complaining about one burned-out Christmas light until his wife reminds him to look at the many that are brilliantly glowing.


In this video we alter our second view using fields, and wrap up the process of exploring numerous ways to create a single product-based block (whew!).
So I'm going to click the cogwheel in the upper right-hand corner and click edit view, and of course this is our product-based view this time and in this one we have all of the fields available to us because we're basing this view on products. We do use a reference in order to connect to the review page that this displays on. So we still need to keep that, but we don't need to use the reference in order to display the fields.
So if you remember from before, we switched to using the full node to display this content. But let's go ahead and switch over to using fields. So I'm going to click content here and select fields and then apply all displays.
We'll leave these settings at their defaults and click apply all displays again. We can go ahead and remove this field which was displaying the product as a sidebar view mode after it was referenced using our relationship to the review. And I'll go ahead and click remove.


Finally today I watched the iPad 2 keynote. Steve did open the keynote and got standing ovations. He did wear his blue jeans and black sweater like always, but I had the feeling he lost some weight again. He is since his cancer pretty slim but he looked even slimmer.
He did as always a good job with his presentation however it was not as fluent as usual. He stopped a couple of times to find the right word, he almost said twice iPad instead iPod and the other way around. It is recognizable that he is not 100% fit. I was sometimes certain he did wear a bug in his ear to listen to somebody telling him what to say, like a little helper. Nevertheless the keynote was great, even if the magical "one more thing" was missing.
He gave us some impressive numbers.
100,000,000 books in iBooks downloaded.
We all know since yesterday that 15 million iPad got sold and around 10 million iPhones have iBooks installed. Each iBooks install comes with at least one free book (Winnie the Pooh). This means out of the 100 million downloaded books are already 25 million downloaded without doing anything. Even if we don't count them, then it is only 4 books per mobile device, which is not much if we count the iPad partly an e-book reader.
Apple paid over 2 billion USD to their app developer community.
So we have 230k paid apps. This is in average $7,000 revenue per app.
We have around 72,000 Active Publishers in the US App store. If 30% only offer free apps then we have about 50,000 publishers which made money with their apps, which would be in average $40,000 per publisher revenue, which is not too bad. You don't make a living but it is a nice income.
However the average revenue might be less, because the free apps have usually iAds and the $2 billion paid to developers do include iAds.
The numbers seem at the end not high, but still higher than right now the competition can offer.
Over 200,000,000 iTunes accounts with credit cards.
Basically only Facebook has more members if we see Apple as a social network, but the difference is, that Apple's members are paying members. If each of the accounts spend only $1 a month, then this is per year $2.4 billion a year revenue. Nice.
Jobs noted that Amazon doesn't release comparable numbers for the accounts it holds, but suggested that this may be the largest collection of credit-card-backed accounts anywhere on the Internet. If it were a country, iTunes would be the fifth largest in the world, smaller than Indonesia but bigger than Brazil.
It is impressive that a company like Apple can generate within 9 months almost $10 billion revenue from one product which costs in average $633. This means the most sold iPad is the 16GB 3G version or the 32GB no 3G.


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Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle Now Available In 5.56 NATO
Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. (NYSE: RGR) is proud to announce that the Ruger® Gunsite Scout Rifle is now chambered in 5.56 NATO. This newest version of the Gunsite Scout Rifle features a hybrid chamber that shoots both 5.56 NATO and .223 Rem. accurately and safely. The rifle weighs approximately 7.1 lbs., features a 16.1", 1/2-28 threaded barrel with a 1:8 twist rate, offers controlled round feed and is shipped with a 10-round detachable box magazine.
"This is a natural extension of the Gunsite Scout Rifle line," said Gunsite Instructor Ed Head, one of the contributors to the original Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifle design. "Being chambered in a lower cost, universally available caliber, and with the Ruger reputation for reliability and accuracy, this is another serious rifle for those serious about rifles," he added.
The cold hammer-forged, medium contour, alloy steel barrel and receiver feature a matte black oxide finish. The 1/2-28 threaded barrel comes with a Ruger flash suppressor, which can be removed in order to attach other threaded barrel accessories. The rifle's trigger guard and magazine well are formed of glass-reinforced nylon. The magazine release is a push-forward Mini-14® paddle just ahead of the trigger guard.
A Mini-14-style protected, non-glare, post front sight and receiver-mounted, adjustable, ghost ring rear sight offer out-of-the-box usability. A forward-mounted Picatinny rail offers options in mounting an assortment of optics such as scout scopes from Burris® and Leupold® which allow "both eyes open" fast target acquisition. The rifle also features Ruger M77® integral scope mounts and comes with Ruger scope rings for conventional scope mounting.
The weather resistant black laminate stock, with "Gunsite Scout Rifle" engraved on the grip cap contains sling swivel studs and a checkered grip and forearm. A soft rubber recoil pad with three 1/2" spacers allows the length of pull to be adjusted and properly sized for different shooters or to give the shooter the proper fit with outerwear or defensive gear of varying thickness.
For more information on the new Gunsite Scout Rifle or to learn about the extensive line of award-winning Ruger firearms, visit Ruger.com or Facebook.com/Ruger. To find accessories for the Gunsite Scout Rifle or other Ruger firearms, visit ShopRuger.com.


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Index: Penalty finite element methods for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations. Transient Navier-Stokes equations: fully discrete algorithm and computational aspects. Thermally coupled flows and nonlinear materials. Mould filling simulation.
Although the numerical simulation of flow problems began in the sixties using finite difference orpanel methods, it wasn´t until the early seventies that the Finite Element Method (FEM) entered the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Since then, a lot of progress has been made, both in the understanding of the difficulties lying on the application of the general finite element ideas and in the development of numerical strategies to overcome them.


One Truth was for 1 month on a European tour sponsored by Volvo Cars with a husky edition XC70.
Defined objectives are Lörrach, Cologne, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Malmö.
one truth is proud that they were able to perpetuate the bridge gallery with artists like loomit, smash, maclaim etc…On the way to göteburg one truth paint the legendary Flora hamburg schanze quarter.
One Truth stay two weeks in göteburg for a solo exhibition at urbanart room in the middle of the city.
Dr.drax and Pase meet in malmö the world famous graffiti artist Bates for a big last supper project.
Many thanks to our loyal companion Black Owl Pictures for documenting the tour.


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Effective May 21, 2012, the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (AAICPC) and the Interstate Commission for Juveniles (ICJ) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Click here to view a PDF of the signed MOU.
Interstate Commission for Juveniles and Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
THIS MOU is made between the Interstate Commission for Juveniles (herein referred to as the "Commission," the governing body of the Interstate Compact for Juveniles, herein referred to as the "ICJ") and the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (herein referred to as the "AAICPC," the administrative body of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, herein referred to as the "ICPC") effective on the 21st day of May, 2012.
I. Purpose of MOU
The purpose of this MOU is to foster communication, collaboration, education, and training to clarify issues and resolve confusion at the local, state and national levels in the handling of those cases when both compacts may apply or in other cases when only one compact is to be used. Further, this MOU is intended to coordinate, to the extent possible, the roles and responsibilities of each party at the local, state and national levels to determine: 1) the best plan of action regarding public safety and what is in the best interest and safety of the child or juvenile, and 2) when it may be necessary to modify rules, regulations, procedures and forms to further enhance communication and improve delivery of services.
II. Defining ICPC and ICJ
A. Interstate Compact for Juveniles: The ICJ preserves child welfare and promotes public safety interests of citizens, including victims of juvenile offenders. These objectives are accomplished by providing enhanced accountability, enforcement, visibility and communication in the return of juveniles who have left their state of residence without permission, and in the supervision of juveniles who travel or relocate across state lines. Additionally, ICJ has a provision to make contracts for the cooperative institutionalization in public facilities in member states for delinquent youth needing special services (See, ICJ Article I).
1. Juveniles subject to ICJ for possible return are those who are located in a holding or asylum state and:
a. Are on probation, parole or court ordered supervision who have absconded, escaped or failed to appear; or
b. Are non-delinquent who have left their state of residence without permission, including those in the custody of the state (children in need of care); or
c. Are accused delinquent with an active warrant entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC); or
d. Have failed in their ICJ placement, and the sending state has taken action for their return; or
e. Have run from an ICPC placement and the resource refuses to take the child or juvenile back, or the child or juvenile refuses to return.
2. Juveniles eligible for supervision under ICJ Article I (A) are those who are on probation, parole, or deferred adjudication and seek to travel or relocate to another state, including those:
a. In a home placement with a parent or legal guardian.
b. As full-time students at a secondary school, or accredited university, college, or state licensed specialized training program and can provide proof of acceptance and enrollment.
c. In other home situation placements excluding residential treatment facilities.
B. Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children: ICPC is an agreement between member states that governs the placement of abused, neglected or dependent children into another state. ICPC provides these children the same protection and services that would be provided to them if they remained in their home state. ICPC also governs children placed as a result of an independent or private adoption and all children (including delinquents) placed into residential treatment facilities. ICPC includes the return of the child to the original jurisdiction should the placement prove not to be in the best interest of the child.
ICPC defines four types of placement categories:
Adoptions: Placement preliminary to an adoption. (Independent, private or public Adoptions) See, ICPC Article III (a).
Licensed or Approved Foster Homes: Placement with related or unrelated caregivers. See, ICPC Article III (a).
Placements with parents and relatives when a parent or relative is not making the placement. See, ICPC Article VIII (a) "Limitations."
Group Homes or Residential Placement of all children, including accused or adjudicated delinquents in institutions in other states. See, ICPC Article VI.
C. Cases where both compacts may be involved:
Runaways as defined above in paragraph II(A)(1)(b) and (1)(e); or
Residential placements as defined in paragraphs II(A) and II(B)(4); or
Family settings as defined in paragraph II(B)(1), (2), and (3).
III. This collaboration includes:
A. Communication: Promoting Communication at the Local, State and National Levels.
1. Distributing this MOU to all member states.
2. Posting this MOU on both the AAICPC and the Commission websites.
3. Promoting inclusion of interested stakeholders in regional meetings.
4. Representation at national level business meetings, conferences or committees.
5. Facilitating joint participation on state councils or meetings.
6. Encouraging periodic meetings between ICPC and ICJ state offices.
7. Encouraging collaboration at a local level between probation and parole and child welfare staff involved in cases of mutual concern.
B. Education and Training: Promoting Education and Training at the Local, State and National Levels.
1. Utilizing this MOU and related documents as part of ICJ and ICPC education and training material.
2. Providing support and leadership to develop state and local trainers.
3. Promoting local, state and regional trainings which utilize a variety of formats.
4. Encouraging training events at the national meetings or conferences that would be open to both the Commission and the AAICPC membership.
5. Recognizing at the local and state level the importance of including judges, attorneys, court appointed special advocates, law enforcement or other interested parties in education and training efforts.
C. Collaboration in Specific Cases: Promoting Collaboration at the Local, State and National Levels, where Concurrent or Overlapping Responsibilities Exist:
1. Encouraging joint staffing between state and local parties in the handling of cases.
2. Examining more efficient and effective ways to share case sensitive information while complying with statutes and regulations that govern the sharing of such documents.
3. Working together to provide stability when a child or juvenile becomes involved in the abuse or delinquency system after having been placed through either compact in the receiving state.
IV. Implementation
The implementation of this MOU may be covered in existing documents. However, some areas may require further clarification. Such clarification may be developed through workgroups, meetings, establishing training curriculums and best practice guidelines, or, if necessary, modification of rules, regulations, procedures and forms.
V. Resolution
If through the education and communication listed above the involved parties are unable to reach an agreement on a specific issue they can attempt to resolve the issue at the local or state level. If the involved parties are unable to resolve it at either of those levels they may request assistance from their respective national office by contacting the following individual(s):
Interstate Commission for Juveniles
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Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
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See below the national websites for additional information:
ICJ: http://www.juvenilecompact.org/
ICPC: https://aphsa.org
VI. Termination
If either party desires to terminate this MOU, it may do so by providing written notice to the other party through the Commission Chair or AAICPC President. Such termination shall be effective ninety (90) days following receipt of said notice unless otherwise rescinded.
VII. Modification
Modifications to this MOU may only be made with the written consent of both the Commission Chair and AAICPC President.
VIII. Applicable Law
Notwithstanding the terms of this MOU, all provisions governing placements subject to the Interstate Compact for Juveniles and the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, and the authorized rules and regulations under each Compact shall continue to apply.
All provisions concerning liability, immunity, and indemnification as provided in the Interstate Compact for Juveniles and the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, shall remain in effect and no provision of this MOU is intended to confer upon or authorize any individual right of action by any person to whom this MOU may apply.
IX. Effective Date and Signature
This MOU shall be effective upon the signature of the Commission and AAICPC authorized officials. It shall be in force from May 21, 2012 to
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Home Culture John Dies at the End: A Daft Plunge into Midnight Movie Madness
John Dies at the End: A Daft Plunge into Midnight Movie Madness
by Andrew Wyatt
Even when graded on the off-kilter curve reserved for the works of filmmaker Don Coscarelli, John Dies at the End is a far-out trip. The writer-director of the Phantasm horror franchise and the absurdist comedy Bubba Ho-tep unleashes his most twisted urges in his new film, and the result is equal parts flabbergasting, embarrassing, and delightfully hare-brained. Adapted from David Pargin's satirical, serialized Web novel about a hell-spawned hallucinogen, John is less a story than a feature-length opportunity for Corscarelli to do anything that tickles his midnight movie fancy, without regard for narrative logic or good taste.
The titular John (Rob Mayes) is the dim-witted pal of sarcastic, hassled slacker David Wong (Chase Williamson). The film features a frame story wherein Dave relates his bizarre experiences with demonic mind-control drugs and alternate dimensions to a skeptical reporter (Paul Giamatti). Figuring in those experience are alien slugs, a fake Jamaican guy, a bratwurst cell phone, a Las Vegas psychic, a flying mustache, a talking dog, and naked worshipers of a Lovecraftian abomination. In short, it's Coscarelli's Naked Lunch (or, perhaps more precisely, his Class of Nuke 'Em High).
John Dies is undeniably a Bad Movie, but it's challenging to actively dislike a work that is so enthusiastic about its mission to be fractured and unpredictable. The screenplay isn't as witty as a drug-themed Satanic horror-comedy deserves, and the gags fall flat as often as they provoke a chuckle. However, the sheer maniacal energy and dopey glee on display in Coscarelli's film establish a cheesy allure that's difficult to resist. In an era when prepackaged quirk haunts the arthouse, John Dies at the End is a genuinely, unapologetically eccentric cinematic diversion.
Look/Listen Look-Listen February 2013
Andrew Wyatt
Andrew Wyatt is a lifelong St. Louis native and a freelance writer on film art. Read his essays on classic, cult, and contemporary cinema at gatewaycinephile.com and follow along with his film addiction at letterboxd.com/awyatt76/.
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Q: VSCode Extension webview external html and css I'm trying to create a vscode extension and the goal is to display a webview with a extern html and css.
Loading and setting the html works but unfortunately the css won't get load.
Creating webview,loading html and setting :
var resultPanel = vscode.window.createWebviewPanel("test", "TestWebView", vscode.ViewColumn.One, {});
    fs.readFile(path.join(context.extensionPath,'src','languageMenue.html'),(err,data) => {
          if(err) {console.error(err)}
          resultPanel.webview.html = data;
      });

This works, inside the html the css get loaded like that :
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="theme.css">

The css is in the same folder as the html (inside the src folder of my the extension project)
What am I missing? Why the css won't get load?

A: Please read this Controlling access to local resources
And note about localResourceRoots as below code:
const panel = vscode.window.createWebviewPanel(
        'catCoding',
        'Cat Coding',
        vscode.ViewColumn.One,
        {
          // Only allow the webview to access resources in our extension's media directory
          localResourceRoots: [vscode.Uri.file(path.join(context.extensionPath, 'media'))]
        }
      );

You can edit the line to:
localResourceRoots: [vscode.Uri.file(path.join(context.extensionPath, 'your/relative/location/here/in/your/extension/path'))]

A: To make this work you have to specify the absolute path where the css file is stored.
i.e.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/path/to/dir/of/theme.css">

Since vscode suggests to use secure content policy, the way to achieve dynamic loading of the path is like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{styleSrc}}">

where {{styleSrc}} is binded as:
const styleSrc = vscode.Uri.file(path.join(vscode.context.extensionPath, '/path/to/dir/of/theme.css')).with({ scheme: 'vscode-resource' })

or with the asWebviewUri API as:
const onDiskPath = vscode.Uri.file(path.join(vscode.context.extensionPath, '/path/to/dir/of/theme.css'))
const styleSrc = panel.webview.asWebviewUri(onDiskPath)

where panel is the one created with vscode.window.createWebviewPanel(...)
For more info see: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/webview#loading-local-content

A: Read through the vscode webview guide: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/webview
Specifically pay close attention to the "Loading local content" section: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-guides/webview#loading-local-content
There are special rules for how to load external content for security reasons.

A: You have to replace the css filename in your html file with styleUri.toString(), just binding with {{styleSrc}} does not work.
const htmlPathOnDisk = vscode.Uri.file(path.join(this._extensionPath, '/res/html/index.html'));
var html = fs.readFileSync(htmlPathOnDisk.path).toString();

const stylePathOnDisk = vscode.Uri.file(path.join(this._extensionPath, '/res/css/styles.css'));
const styleUri = webview.asWebviewUri(stylePathOnDisk);
html = html.replace('filename_of_css_file_in_your_html_file.css', styleUri.toString());

// continue for any other resources, e.g. scripts

webview.html = html

A: I was struggling to figure things out so here's a more verbose solution using registerWebviewViewProvider which is setup slightly differently.
I want to point out that localResourceRoots should contain directories not specific files (Took me awhile to figure that out).
html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{pathCSS}}">
    </head>
    <body>

typescript:
export function activate(context: vscode.ExtensionContext) {
    const provider = new customViewProvider(context.extensionPath);
}
class customViewProvider implements vscode.WebviewViewProvider {
    public static readonly viewType = "decomp_webview";
    private _view?: vscode.WebviewView;
    private extensionUri: string;
    public webview: vscode.Webview | undefined;
    constructor(
        private readonly _extensionUri: string,
    ) {
        this.extensionUri = _extensionUri;
     }

    public resolveWebviewView(
        webviewView: vscode.WebviewView,
        context: vscode.WebviewViewResolveContext,
        _token: vscode.CancellationToken,
    ) {
        this._view = webviewView;
        console.log("PATH: "+this._extensionUri);
        webviewView.webview.options = {
            enableScripts: true,
            localResourceRoots: [
                vscode.Uri.file(path.join(this.extensionUri, "/src")),
            ]
        };

        let html = fs.readFileSync(vscode.Uri.file(path.join(this.extensionUri, "src/ui.html")).with({scheme: 'vscode-resource'}).fsPath, "utf-8");

        const pathToCSS = vscode.Uri.file(path.join(this.extensionUri, 'src/ui.css'));

        html = html.replace("{{pathCSS}}", String(webviewView.webview.asWebviewUri(pathCSS)));

        console.log(html);

        const updateWebview = () => {
            webviewView.webview.html = html
        };

        setInterval(updateWebview, 1000);


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Arrogant King of the North
By David Maas June 15, 2021 Abomination-Desolation Little Horn
The war between the kings of the "North" and "South" culminates in the rise of an arrogant ruler who persecutes the saints - Daniel 11:5-45.
Beginning with the fourfold division of the Greek kingdom, the interpreting angel outlined the coming conflicts between two of the subsequent realms that culminated in the rise of a "contemptible" ruler. Previously, the rise and division of the Greek empire was portrayed in the vision of the "Ram and the Goat," representing the kingdoms of the "Medes and Persians" and of "Greece." - [Photo by FERNANDO TRIVIÑO on Unsplash].
The prominent horn of the "Goat" symbolized the first "great king" of Greece; undoubtedly, Alexander the Great. After his demise, "four kingdoms stood up out of the nation, but not with his power." From one came a "king of fierce countenance" who sought to "destroy the mighty ones and the holy people." He despoiled the "sanctuary," stopped the daily burnt offering, and erected the "transgression that desolates" – (Danial 8:1-27).
As great and swift as Alexander's conquests were, his empire did not survive his death. When it was divided, the four subsequent realms were "lesser kingdoms," and not one was ruled by any of his offspring – ("but not to his posterity").
When Alexander died, a struggle ensued between his generals over the succession. Eventually, his domain was divided among four generals, two of whom played significant roles in the history of Judea – Ptolemy I in Egypt ("king of the south"), and Seleucus I in Syria and Mesopotamia - ("king of the north").
The first half of chapter 11 deals briefly with the conflicts between the "king of the south" and the "king of north," which spanned several generations. This section ends with the assassination of Seleucus IV Philopator in 175 B.C., the ruler of the Seleucid empire. Through subterfuge, his younger brother, Antiochus IV (also known as Antiochus Epiphanes or "God manifest"), seized the throne – (Daniel 11:5-20).
In the narrative, Antiochus is described as a "contemptible man," most likely, referring to his usurpation of the throne, since he was not the legitimate heir – ("and they have not given unto him the honor of the kingdom") – (Daniel 11:21).
Seleucus IV had two legal heirs, his eldest son, Demetrius I, and a younger one, also named Antiochus. Both were underage when he died. Antiochus IV exploited the situation by seizing the throne for himself. This is represented in symbolic language in the earlier vision of the "little horn" before whom "three horns" were removed, Seleucus IV and his two sons (Daniel 7:8).
Periodically, Antiochus waged war against the Ptolemaic kingdom in Egypt. When he was at the point of achieving final victory, a delegation from the Roman senate intervened and ordered him to cease his attack or face the wrath of Rome – ("For ships of Kittim will come against him; therefore, he will be grieved and return" – Daniel 11:30).
Frustrated by the setback, on his return from Egypt he vented his rage by attacking the city of Jerusalem, which marked the start of his suppression of the Jewish religion, especially its Temple rituals:
(Daniel 11:30-31) – "And he will return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and will do his pleasure… And have regard to them that forsake the holy covenant. And forces will stand on his part, and they will profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and remove the daily burnt-offering, and they will set up the abomination that makes desolate."
Again, as in the previous visions, we find references to the profanation of the "sanctuary," the cessation of the daily burnt offering, and the setting up of the "abomination that desolates," events predicted in the visions of the "Ram and Goat," and in the prophecy of the "seventy weeks":
(Daniel 8:11-13) – "The little horn magnified itself, even to the prince of the host; and it took away from him the daily burnt-offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down…How long will be the vision concerning the daily burnt-offering, and the transgression that desolates, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?"
(Daniel 9:26-27) – " And after the sixty-two weeks will the anointed one be cut off, and will have nothing: and the people of the prince that will come will corrupt the city and the sanctuary…And he will make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations will come one that makes desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, will wrath be poured out upon the desolate."
The verbal parallels are consistent between the several visions, and the same events are in view in each case. The "little horn" before whom three horns were removed, the "king of fierce countenance," and now, the "contemptible man," all refer to the same person.
Most likely, the "abomination that desolates" is the altar to Zeus Olympias installed in the Jerusalem "sanctuary" on the order of Antiochus. On it, reportedly, "unclean" animals were sacrificed to honor the Syrian deity.
In his discourse on the Mount of Olives, the reference by Jesus to the "Abomination of Desolation" was derived from this chapter in the history of Israel. Likewise, the attempt by Antiochus to "exalt himself against the God of gods," thereby corrupting the "holy people," became the model for Paul's "man of lawlessness" and the final "apostasy" that would precede the parousia or "arrival" of Jesus – (Matthew 24:15, Thessalonians 2:1-10).
Another link to the earlier visions are the references to the "indignation" and its "determined" end:
(Daniel 8:19) – "I will make you know what will be in the later time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end."
(Daniel 9:27) – "And he will make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week, he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations will come one that makes desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, will wrath be poured out upon the desolate."
(Daniel 11:30) – "For ships of Kittim will come against him; therefore, he will be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, he will even return, and have regard to them that forsake the holy covenant."
(Daniel 11:36) – "And the king will do according to his will; and he will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and he will prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done."
Thus, the malevolent figure portrayed in the several visions was the pagan ruler who suppressed the religious practices of the Jews. The man known from history who fits the description is Antiochus IV, the ruler of the Seleucid kingdom - (reigned 175-164 B.C.).
His concentrated attacks against the Jews occurred between 168 and 164 B.C., a little over three years. This is the period described in Daniel as the "time, times, and part of a time," the "two-thousand three-hundred evenings-mornings" (i.e., 1,150 days), and the second half of the "seventieth week."
Besides outright persecution, his efforts included attempts to corrupt the Jewish leadership by their adoption of Hellenistic customs and religious practices - ("The Leader who comes corrupts the people"; "And such as do wickedly against the covenant will he corrupt by flatteries"). The attack on the "holy covenant" and the "saints" is described variously in each of the visions, for example:
(Daniel 7:21) – "And the horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them."
(Daniel 8:23-24) – "And in the latter end of their kingdom, about the completion of the transgressors, there will stand up a king of fierce countenance…and wonderful things he destroyed, and he prospered and wrought, and corrupted the mighty ones, and the people of the saints."
The description of the king who "exalted himself above every god and spoke marvelous things against the God of gods" refers to his violations of the Temple rituals. "Speaking marvelous things" recalls the description of the "little horn with the mouth speaking great things," as well as the "king of fierce countenance" who "corrupted marvelously."
The story in chapter 11 ends with the demise of the "king of the north," here told enigmatically and briefly. His end was told in similar terms in the earlier visions:
(Daniel 11:45) - "And he will plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he will come to his end, and none will help him."
(Daniel 7:26) – "But the judgment will be set, and they will take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end."
(Daniel 8:25) – "He will also stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be broken without hand."
(Daniel 9:27) – "And he will make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week, he will cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations will come one that makes desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, will wrath be poured out upon the desolated one."
The described downfall of Antiochus also echoes the conclusion of Daniel's interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the "great image" that represented four kingdoms – ("He will be broken without hand." "He will come to his end, and none will help him" - Daniel 2:44-45).
Antiochus died in 164 B.C.; unfortunately, the surviving records provide sparse details on precisely where, when, and how his death occurred. According to the second book of Maccabees, it was due to disease and a consequent fall from his chariot - ( 2 Maccabees 9:5-9 ).
The language in Daniel describing his downfall is echoed in Paul's description of the destruction of the "man of lawlessness" when Jesus returns in power and glory - ("he will be broken without hand"):
(2 Thessalonians 2:8) – "And then will be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the manifestation of his arrival."
The visions from Daniel tell the story of the agelong struggle between the "kingdom of God" and the kingdom(s) of the present fallen age. The actual battles are waged against the "saints," as malevolent political powers attempt to corrupt and destroy the people of God.
The main protagonist who fights for the "saints" is the one "like a son of man," also called the "prince of princes" and the "prince of the host." He also is a surrogate for the people of God, for an attack on the "saints" is the same as an attack against the "Son of Man."
And in Daniel, events climax "in later times" with the appearance of the main antagonist, the malevolent ruler who seeks to "corrupt" the people of God, the "little horn," the "king of fierce countenance," the "leader" who corrupts the people, and the "contemptible person" who arrogates worship to himself – ("Such as do wickedly against the covenant will he pervert by flattery; but the people that know their God shall be strong").
The "little horn" that waged "war against the saints," desecrated the "sanctuary," caused the cessation of the daily sacrifices, and "set up the abomination that desolates," provided the historical and scriptural background used by the New Testament to describe another "abomination of desolation," as well as the final end-time figure known as the "man of lawlessness," the "beast," and the "Antichrist."
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